Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 81

"Alright, perfect!" Eisen said with a happy smile and nodded in satisfaction. Now he only needed to properly connect Cabarum to it so that he could pull it through the streets. For that purpose, he already added something on the Horse Automaton that would make this far easier. On the side of its body, he added some connectors, letting Eisen simply connect two poles to its body and then to the pole at the front of the carriage used to pull and steer it.

Cabarum also had two connectors by the sides of its mouth where rope could be connected to more easily control his movement while Eisen or Bree were sitting on the small bench at the front of the carriage.

So Eisen quickly prepared those two poles and pushed them onto the connectors at the side of Cabarum's body and then to the carriage, before attaching the rope to the horse's mouth.

After slowly packing up a few scraps and placing them into an empty crate that he already had, Eisen quickly cleaned up and then opened the large wooden door leading to the streets of Melroe to test how well the carriage can drive. Considering that its quality was high enough to break through woodworking, despite the fact that breaking through skills was supposed to be harder now that he reached the peak of his title, it should probably work just fine, but Eisen still wanted to see if there were any little tweaks needed and what kind of enchantments would be good to add to the wooden frame of the carriage to make it more stable and durable in total.

He first wanted to see how well the enchantments on the wheels helped before deciding on what else to place onto it, since Eisen wouldn't be able to just erase the enchantment. At least not yet. Morrom explained to him what would happen if you just tried to erase an enchantment without the appropriate rank in the skill. It would basically cause a surge of energy to explode either outward or inward depending on the enchantment, quite easily being able to destroy the item or surface it was placed on, as well as damage the one that was removing the enchantment. That was also why Eisen placed the enchantment on the inside of the metal ring, so that it wouldn't scratch up and be destroyed while they were driving.

So, If Eisen wanted to remove an enchantment safely, he would either have to wait until his Enchanting skill reached a higher rank, or fully remove the piece that he enchanted. And since that would just be a waste of time, he wanted to try and make sure the enchantments were as appropriate as possible.

After he opened the door to the outside, Eisen brought Aulu inside the carriage and set Caria down on her back, while Bree was waiting outside on the street to make sure Eisen wasn't crashing into anything. After all, this was the first time in quite a few years that he steered a carriage.

Once they were finally on the outside, Bree quickly closed the door back down and joined Eisen on the front bench. "Alright, Cabarum, slowly walk forward now." Eisen commanded the Automaton, and it did as told. What they would do in order to test the carriage was to drive it to "Everything Magic", Morrom's shop, and grab those Barrels that Eisen prepared not too long ago. This way, they were able to test out different scenarios perfectly. First, driving up or down a mountain, and then driving with or without cargo.

So this was the perfect way to look at what kinds of enchantments they needed. But as far as Eisen was concerned, this carriage seemed to drive quite well, and didn't seem to shake all that much. It might be a bit different inside, but he'll just have to see about that in a bit.

Not too long after they started driving down the slope, they reached Morrom's shop, and Eisen told Cabarum to stop walking and had Bree wait with the carriage while he went inside to grab the Barrels.

Luckily, Eisen's strength stat was quite high, so he more than easily managed to carry the barrels on his own and placed them down into the back of the carriages. And once he thanked Morrom for giving him the barrels in the first place and letting them be stored in his workshop, Eisen stepped into the back of the carriage and asked Bree to start driving back up the slope. However, at first, Cabarum didn't listen to Bree.